Prohibition

JANUARY 6, 2023

When launching a campaign, video has great storytelling potential – showcasing your brand’s campaign findings far and wide. In this blog, we will detail the reasons why video should be an essential component of your public relations strategy, and how it can add real substance to your campaign. Drive Awareness.

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Flack's Revenge

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Instagram is all about dazzling images and stories and Facebook is increasingly about video storytelling. First, social media will be around for many years to come, just like TV, outdoor, radio and even print. LinkedIn is also attracting increased advertising dollars and usage rates continue to grow.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 18, 2019

If you ask 10 different public relations (PR) professionals what they do for a living, you’d get 10 different answers. I culled through the answers pulling out as many as possible that were fit for print and listed them below. 17) “I help companies make more money by getting good publicity.”. 8) “Consult, coach, teach.”.

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Mark My Words

JANUARY 3, 2020

2020 will see your major print and TV campaign derailed by the death of or the revelation of how many children our Prime Minister has (or insert other incident). 50% of people selling you PR will still not know the difference between advertising and storytelling.

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Ishmael's Corner

JANUARY 31, 2017

The Art Of Storytelling In Business Communications And Public Relations. We know that the rise of digital consumption has brought advertising along for the ride. In fact, projections call for the digital ad spend to surpass TV advertising dollars for the first time this year. So back to.more.

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Stephen Waddington

JUNE 16, 2019

Two data points from the past week should concern you if you work in marketing, media or public relations. Here’s more on those, an event on data-led storytelling that we’re running at Metia next month and other stories that have caught my attention. ?? Newspaper brands continue to suffer as readers shift from print to digital.

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Marketwired

APRIL 12, 2016

Podcasts Can Help Advertisers Reach Niche Audiences. Most of the leading podcasts these days rely on the same group of advertisers. But the size of the audience is hardly what makes advertising unique on podcast, it’s the specificity of the audience you can reach. “If But to Attract Advertisers, Promotion is Key.

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Solo PR Pro

APRIL 8, 2021

Bernadette went on to hold positions at print publications like the Orlando Business Journal and worked as a website producer at a TV news station before deciding to make the jump to PR. It’s doing a lot of different things in partnership with other functional areas and forms of communication, like marketing and advertising.”.

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Stephen Waddington

JUNE 9, 2020

No advertising, no sponsorship, no sales promotion or other fundraising efforts. Great stories matter Storytelling is at the heart of all successful communications and PR campaigns. Captain Tom’s story had many of the classic elements of a great story: a plot, a hero and multiple emotional triggers with which the public could connect.

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MaccaPR

AUGUST 26, 2015

Your brand can share storytelling moments from its company history with your key stakeholders, too. From legacy videos and anniversary books to corporate birthday events and digital archives, what follows are five ways smart brands have leveraged their company histories in brand storytelling. Legos' Corporate History Video.

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The Resolution Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

But in an incredibly public display of rejection, Little Rock Regional Chamber, the company in charge of the city’s economic growth, admitted “it’s not you, it’s us” in a one-page ad disguised as a tongue-in-cheek breakup letter with the ecommerce giant. Key Takeaway?—?Add

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Advertising is a distant third. Their study was published in the Journal of Promotion Management and summarized in a piece for the Institute for Public Relations ( IPR ). An annual survey by PRWeek found the median public relations salary in the U.S. More: 2020 Public Relations Salary Survey: How Much Money do PRs Pros Make ?

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Presspage

APRIL 12, 2018

It serves an important social need and legacy media like the Washington Post are showing that really good journalism can make a publication viable even in today’s fragmented market. The print edition of the New York Times alone reaches more people than the Huffington Post, so great newsrooms can still live in this digital environment.”

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Mora Communications

OCTOBER 2, 2017

For Addiction Specialists, having your voice heard and taking the time to establishing yourself as an expert in the field of Addiction Medicine can be an opportunity to reach the patients who need your services the most, this is not done through marketing and advertising alone. Effective PR is effective storytelling.

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Stephen Waddington

JUNE 23, 2019

The internet ad market #3 Mobile and telly ad and viewing parity The time spent on media versus advertising revenue is in sync for desktop (18% vs 18%), TV (33%) and mobile (34%). Radio is under indexed (12% vs 8%) and print is over indexed (3% vs 7%). #4 Meeker calls out the use of edited and curated images as a means of storytelling.

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NewsWhip

JULY 29, 2020

So we decided to analyze the local stories and publishers that are getting the most public interest. The New York Times and The Washington Post are the most dominant of these publishers by a considerable distance, which makes sense due to their status as premier print institutions. . Let’s dive in. . Local-national publishers.

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PR Conversations

JUNE 25, 2015

There is a recent tendency to divide public relations practitioners around their engagement with social media or digital communications – creating different tribes. McLuhan spent some time working in advertising later in his life. I think this is fallacious – here are my reasons why. .

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PRSay

JUNE 6, 2017

The award-winning news anchor and actor will serve as the host for the evening, presenting awards to “the best of the best in public relations” at the AXA Equitable Center. Inputting what you should include and leaving out the things that you shouldn’t include is really the art of storytelling. Or you just didn’t find the story?”.

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Wireless Storytelling Radio Analysis 102

Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Know a PR, marketing or sales leader with compelling ideas fit for print? I think non-PR folks sometimes think of it like advertising or marketing where you can “pay to play” and see relatively immediate, measurable results. Off Script #7: Lou Hoffman on PR and Storytelling. Want to be part of the Off Script series?

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Beyond PR

MARCH 6, 2018

Considering the culmination of traditional advertisements (newspaper, TV, radio and billboards) and digital advertisements (banner ads, pop-ups and sponsored posts), how many advertisements a day do you think you’re exposed to? Annoyed and overwhelmed, consumers are fed up with intrusive advertising and sales tactics.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 13, 2016

But I am smart enough to realize that a company’s marketing, advertising and public relations efforts—my efforts—have a direct and attributable effect to the bottom line of my company. Scott Kaminski is a client-side corporate storyteller who currently manages marketing communications and public relations for Häfele America Co.,

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Contently - Strategy

OCTOBER 24, 2019

You can promote newsletter subscriptions with pop-up on your website, advertise on social, and incentivize followers with a referral campaign. When the publication shuttered its print version and went completely digital in 2019, editors and strategists were given an opportunity to reach into new markets.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MAY 4, 2016

When it comes to using humor in marketing, advertising and public relations, we often have to step back and answer a few questions before proceeding down a path of knock-knock jokes, current event inspired memes and company social media postings which could potentially make your mother-in-law cringe. A former U.S.

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PR Fuel

JULY 24, 2018

The real trick to small business public relations is to tell your business story just like well… a story. 3. Use Tried and True Storytelling Techniques – Establish a clear beginning middle and end, use details to “show” your story and not “tell” it, and build suspense to keep the reader scrolling down or flipping pages.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JUNE 7, 2019

You’re about to be thrust into the fascinating world of public relations – where people naturally speak their own private language with various business slang and PR lingo. When a journalist decides to transition to public relations, they say they’re “going over to the dark side.” Truth is, it’s not that dark.

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Shift Communications

OCTOBER 20, 2014

If they manage to stay engaged for more than a minute, then you’ve clearly got the hang of good storytelling. If they’re immediately bored, then your storytelling isn’t compelling. Think you can’t apply compelling storytelling to “boring industries”? Christopher S.

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Stephen Waddington

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

An international public relations report suggests that the industry it set to see growth worldwide but that measurement remains a work in progress. 2 Investment in public relations CEOs continue to increase financial investment in their corporate reputation. The agility of public relations is proving its strength.

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Sword and the Script

MAY 22, 2018

Advertising was extremely expensive. Early on, I worked at a printing technology company where we had a big poster on the wall that said, “Freedom of the press belongs to those who own one.” Trying to tie print ads or direct mail directly to sales, for a high-value, long-sales-cycle B2B product, was a nightmare.

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Maxim Behar

MARCH 6, 2022

I have been associated with the public relations business almost for the past 28 years. Public relations, at that time, was an unknown concept in Bulgaria as for all the businesses in that region, not only in Bulgaria. So, I started off with a so-called advertising agency at the very beginning and then turned step by step.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 8, 2015

One of the more interesting aspects of the programs transition for me has been the advertising model. This program does for podcasts, what native ads have done for online print. The show is produced by the American Public Media (APM), and like many public radio shows, I find the coverage tends to lean left.

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MaccaPR

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Marketers know that social media is as revolutionary to our culture as the printing press was in Gutenberg’s day, turning mobile phones and PCs into access points for endless connectivity. Do this by being authentic storytellers and finding the right consumers with whom to connect. Jackley asked. Now, go be a disruptor!

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Also see: PR and Storytelling; Off Script #7: Lou Hoffman. 13) Data says it’s fit to print. An increase in the data driven arms race and for many to return to analog or print options to cut through the digital noise.”. While public relations was once about only earned media, we now see the lines blurring.

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 15, 2021

We look forward to eight of the biggest issues for public relations in 2022. Almanac: Challenges and opportunities for public relations 2022 from Stephen Waddington This isn’t a review of 2021, or even a series of predictions for 2022. You’ll find eight short essays with links to further reading, so that you can check our work.

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Media relations remains an important part of the execution of a public relations campaign alongside paid, shared and owned media. Much of the modern public relations business grew up out of media relations and publicity, rooted in storytelling and editorial engagement. Media relations needs to be two-way.

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Cision

MAY 21, 2015

In these weekly podcasts originating from Toronto, Ottawa and Chicago, Gini Dietrich of Arment Dietrich, Joseph Thornley of Thornley Fallis Group and Martin Waxman of Martin Waxman Communications explore deep inside the world of public relations and social and digital media. 24) Jason Keath. 29) John Dennis. Smart Time Online. 40) Danny Ivy.

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Social Media Marketing Pinterest Media 120

Sword and the Script

AUGUST 2, 2016

During the work week, he’s an account manager with LTPR , a public relations firm based in Portland, Oregon specializing in the financial, healthcare and professional services industries, including crisis communications and litigation support. I’ve served in Army Public Affairs for nearly 17 years now.

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Masters in Communications

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

Typically, it is synonymous with broadcast and print media: radio, TV, and film (small and large screen), print media, and advertising. It covers things like public broadcasting services: National Public Radio, and Public Broadcasting Service. These seek to provide educational content.

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